APL2002 (APL-LPA 2002)

Array Processing Languages: Lore, Problems and Applications

July 22-25, 2002
Madrid, Spain

Call for Participation: Papers, Tutorials and Workshops

The APL 2002 Conference will be held July 22-25, 2002 in Madrid, Spain. This is the annual international conference on APL and other array programming languages (A+, J, K, Matlab, Mathematica, Nial, S-Plus, etc.). The conference will be held in cooperation with the British APL Association.

The subject matter of the APL 2002 Conference is three-fold:

Lore: The history of Array Programming Languages, including historical considerations on any of the following or other questions: design, implementations, applications, difficulties, standards wars, divergence, vendors, etc.
Problems: Current use of Array Programming Languages in research and innovation, stressing the advantages provided by the use of the language in building a prototype or the final system. Straightforward descriptions of advanced research questions, or proposals for extensions for current or new Array Programming Languages are also encouraged.
Applications: Actual use of Array Programming Languages for real-life applications, with successful case studies and comparisons with other languages. The application in question need not be at the front end of research in its field.

The APL 2002 Conference will also hold a number of Tutorials, hands-on Workshops and Panel discussions. The conference committee invites you to submit your proposals and intention to participate, indicating the following information:

Your name and affiliation.
Your e-mail address.
Type of proposal (paper, tutorial, workshop, panel discussion).
Title of your proposal.

Please send your messages, before October 15th 2001, to the following e-mail addresses:

General comments to Manuel Alfonseca Manuel.Alfonseca@uam.es
Paper proposals to Xavier Alaman Xavier.Alaman@ii.uam.es
Tutorial/Workshop/Panel proposals to Enrique Alfonseca enrique@cs.york.ac.uk

The preliminary deadline for paper submission is January 31st 2002. The Call for Papers with the appropriate information will be published shortly on our web page at http://www.ii.uam.es/eng/research/apl2002.

Conference site

The Conference will be held at the Technical School of Computer Science in the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. This School is located in a new building, completed in July 1999 and providing all the opportunities for a successful conference. It has lecture theaters and a variety of seminar rooms with computers and projection equipment, plus several workshop rooms with 24 computers each. The University is located 16 km from the center of Madrid, accessible by excellent train and bus lines. Special buses will be provided for participants in the morning and the afternoon. Several hotels with a scale of prices will be offered to visitors.